{{Short description|American author and magazine journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}} thumb|Alec Foege at the 2008 Texas Book Festival. '''Alec Foege''' is an American author and magazine journalist.
==Career== A former contributing editor to ''Rolling Stone'' and senior writer for People magazine, he is the author of four books. His writing has also appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Guitar World'', ''People,'' ''Mediaweek'', ''Adweek'', ''Fortune'', ''Small Business'', ''Spin'', ''Variety'', ''Vogue'', and ''Corporate Counsel''. He is the founder and director of Brookside Research LLC.<ref name=alec>{{cite web|title=Alec Foege- Bio|url=http://alecfoege.com/?page_id=43|publisher=Alec Foege|access-date=June 23, 2013|archive-date=July 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725235225/http://alecfoege.com/?page_id=43|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal== Foege resides in Connecticut.<ref name="us macmillan">{{cite web|title=Alec Foege {{!}} Authors |url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/alecfoege|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|access-date=June 23, 2013}}</ref> He graduated from Columbia University. Foege is the son of Norma and Kenneth Foege and grew up in Rye, New York.
==Publications==
* ''Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/20694061.html?dids=20694061:20694061&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+05%2C+1995&author=Greg+Kot%2C+Tribune+Rock+Critic.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=TRANSCENDENTAL+INNOVATION+FOR+GLENN+BRANCA%2C+BEING+A+GROUNDBREAKER+IS+NOTHING+NEW&pqatl=google|title=Transcendental Innovation for Glenn Branca, being a Groundbreaker is Nothing New|last=Kot|first=Greg|date=February 5, 1995|work=Chicago Tribune|page=12|access-date=July 7, 2011|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107094700/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/20694061.html?dids=20694061%3A20694061&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Feb%2005%2C%201995&author=Greg%20Kot%2C%20Tribune%20Rock%20Critic.&pub=Chicago%20Tribune%20%28pre-1997%20Fulltext%29&desc=TRANSCENDENTAL%20INNOVATION%20FOR%20GLENN%20BRANCA%2C%20BEING%20A%20GROUNDBREAKER%20IS%20NOTHING%20NEW&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref> (St. Martin's, 1994) *''The Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson's Media Machine'' (Wiley, 1996) *''Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio'' (Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). *''The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great'' (2013) <ref>{{Cite book |isbn = 978-0465009237|title = The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great|last1 = Foege|first1 = Alec|year = 2013| publisher=Basic Books }}</ref>
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